Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio. At Maywood, near Los Angeles, with the help of the Messrs. Morgenthau and Ochs, President Willys dedicated his company's new $1,500,000 assembly plant. On the day before the ceremonies, the plant had turned out 60 small, agile Whippets. It will soon go into Willys-Knight production, plant was designed for quick deliveries west of the Rockies and for the Asiatic trade Said Mr. Willys: "Last year we shipped 40,000 cars out of this country, and this year will send...
...year.* That will mean 59 performances on a tour of 8,977 miles and, according to custom, last week Boston was first. Lohengrin was the opening opera there, with Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan, as the wispy Elsa who could not cure her curiosity, Rene Maison the Silver Knight and Maria Olszewska the black-hearted Ortrud. Other operas came from a standardized repertoire, all save Honegger's Judith which retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her people against the warring Assyrians. Mary Garden it was who prayed simply as Judith...
...with it new responsibilities, new titles for Mr. Thornton. He was Deputy Director of Waterways and Docks, Assistant Director General of Movements and Railways, Inspector General of Transportation. In 1916 he gave up his U. S. citizenship, became a British subject; in 1919 was made Sir Henry Thornton, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1922 he came to Canada; took over direction of the woebegone Canadian National; moved politics out and efficiency...
...Paul Wadsworth Chapman, Manhattan investment banker, had watched the profitable aviation promotion of Elisha Walker (Blair Co.), Charles Hayden and Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...many snatches of tune, lyrics by Brian Hooker, Falstaff's famed expose of "honor" and a false ending in which Prince' Hal bows to Anne Page and promises an annuity to Falstaff. Charles Coburn, blown up to a mountainous size, puffs prodigiously as the lecherous old knight who is robbed in a forest and dumped into the Thames from a laundry basket...